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Do you ever consider getting meat from a humane farm? To me that's as fair a solution as I can find. Especially understanding that during plant harvests thousan
by tomcam 4y ago
Do you ever consider getting meat from a humane farm? To me that's as fair a solution as I can find. Especially understanding that during plant harvests thousands of small animals can be killed or greviously wounded.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoWhat makes a farm humane? I think a lot of people would consider butchering animals inhumane, regardless of how nice you treat them prior to doing so.
- tomcam 4y agoWell I live on a farm. Imagine what it looks like when a raccoon tears the heads off your chickens just for sport. Being shot in the head with a 44 after a great life on a bucolic farm is about as humane as it gets.
- buu700 4y agoI have bought meat at farmers markets, and make more humane choices in the grocery store where available (e.g. pasture-raised eggs and grass-fed beef), but I wouldn't pretend to think that killing animals is a good thing per se. I'm not convinced that "humane" farming is a real answer to this problem. Unless it's theoretically scalable enough to feed the entire planet, I don't see how it would threaten the existence of less humane alternatives. I agree that "humane" meat is the most practical option today, but Meati claims that they'll have scaled up production by the end of next year. Once it's available in grocery stores year-round at an affordable price, I see no reason not to prefer it over meat in general.
- tomcam 4y agoanimals kill each other, often in excruciatingly slow ways.